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Topic: New flexible plastic display screen developed
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Mark Gulbrandsen
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Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-26-2006 06:59 PM
An interesting new thin plastic display has been developed by PLastic Logic. I wonder of this uses the Kodak organic compounds that JP posted about some time ago. Perhaps some day this will replace the already obsolete D-Cinema equipment going in......
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Plastic Logic develops 10-inch plastic display
Plastic Logic, a developer of plastic electronics, today announced that it has developed what it claims to be the world's largest flexible organic active matrix display.
The display consists of a flexible, high resolution, printed active matrix backplane driving an electronic paper frontplane from US-based E Ink. The display will be shown at the 12th International Displays Workshop in Takamatsu, Japan from December 6-9.
The 10-inch SVGA (600×800) display features a 100ppi resolution and four-level grayscale color. The thickness of the display when laminated with E Ink Imaging Film is less than 0.4mm. The backplane substrate is made from low temperature PET (polyethylene terephthalate) supplied by DuPont Teijin Films; PET is more flexible and easier to handle than alternatives such as thin glass or steel foil.
E Ink Imaging Film is an electrophoretic display material that looks like printed ink-on-paper and has been designed for use in paper-like electronic displays. Like paper, the material can be flexed and rolled. The film only consumes battery power while the image is updated.
The displays were fabricated using Plastic Logic's new 350×350mm prototype line and its proprietary printed electronics process that is scalable for large area, high volumes and low cost. Plastic Logic will partner with manufacturers to bring the process to mass production.
Simon Jones, vice president of business development at Plastic Logic said, “Glass based active-matrix displays such as on a laptop screen are heavy and fragile. They cannot address many applications in mobile devices and retail signage where there is a strong market demand for large, thin and unbreakable screens. Plastic Logic’s approach of printing transistors on plastic is the first commercially attractive solution to meet this market need. The flexibility of the display even allows a pressure sensor to be placed under the screen to implement a touch screen without compromising the optical performance of the display.”
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